April 11
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April 11 is the 101st day of the year (102nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 264 days remaining until the end of the year.
Births [change]
- 146 – Septimius Severus, Roman Emperor (d. 211)
- 1348 - Andronikos IV Palaiologus, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire (d. 1385)
- 1357 – King John I of Portugal (d. 1433)
- 1373 – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March
- 1492 – Margaret of Navarre, Queen of Navarre and writer (d. 1549)
- 1568 – Marin Getaldić, Croatian physicist and astronomer (d. 1626)
- 1592 - John Eliot, English statesman (d. 1632)
- 1715 - John Alcock, English organist and composer (d. 1806)
- 1723 – Franz Anton Bustelli, porcelain moulder (d. 1763)
- 1749 - Adelaide Labille-Guiard, French painter (d. 1803)
- 1755 – James Parkinson, English physician (d. 1824)
- 1770 – George Canning, shortest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1827)
- 1790 - George Rockingham Gilmer, Governor of Georgia (d. 1859)
- 1794 - Edward Everett, 16th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1865)
- 1806 - Pierre Guillaume Frederic Le Play, French engineer and social reformer (d. 1882)
- 1810 – Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, soldier and orientalist (d. 1895)
- 1819 – Charles Hallé, pianist and conductor (d. 1895)
- 1824 - Johanna von Puttkamer, wife of Otto von Bismarck (d. 1894)
- 1825 – Ferdinand Lassalle, German politician (d. 1864)
- 1827 - Mahatma Jyotirau Phule, Indian social reformer (d. 1890)
- 1862 – Charles Evans Hughes, American jurist and politician, United States Secretary of State (d. 1948)
- 1862 - William Wallace Campbell, American astronomer (d. 1938)
- 1869 – Kasturba Gandhi, Indian activist and pacifist (d. 1944)
- 1869 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943)
- 1876 - Ivane Javakishvili, Georgian historian (d. 1940)
- 1883 – Hozumi Shigeto, Japanese author (d. 1951)
- 1889 – Nick LaRocca, jazz musician (d. 1961)
- 1890 - Rachele Mussolini, Italian author and wife of Benito Mussolini (d. 1979)
- 1893 – Dean Acheson, United States Secretary of State (d. 1971)
- 1896 – Wieland Herzfelde, publisher and author (d. 1989)
- 1900 – Sandor Marai, Hungarian writer (d. 1989)
- 1906 – Dale Messick, American cartoonist (d. 2005)
- 1908 – Leo Rosten, humorist, author (d. 1997)
- 1910 – Antonio de Spinola, Portuguese politician (d. 1996)
- 1911 – Leopold Hawelka, Austrian cafetier (d. 2011)
- 1911 – Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Polish-American runner (d. 1980)
- 1913 – Oleg Cassini, French-American fashion designer (d. 2006)
- 1914 - Robert Stanfield, 17th Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003)
- 1916 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (d. 1983)
- 1920 - Emilio Colombo, 40th Prime Minister of Italy
- 1920 – Marlen Haushofer, author (d. 1990)
- 1928 – Ethel Kennedy, wife of Robert F. Kennedy
- 1930 – Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan (d. 1997)
- 1930 - Nicholas F. Brady, 68th United States Secretary of the Treasury
- 1931 - Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese composer
- 1931 – Johnny Sheffield, American actor (d. 2010)
- 1932 – Joel Grey, singer, actor, and dancer
- 1933 – Tony Brown, American journalist, broadcaster
- 1935 – Richard Berry, American singer and composer (d. 1997)
- 1937 - Jill Gascoine, British actress and novelist
- 1938 – Kurt Moll, German bass
- 1939 – Louise Lasser, American actress
- 1944 – John Milius, director, writer
- 1946 – Bob Harris, British disc jockey and presenter
- 1947 – Peter Riegert, American actor
- 1947 – Meshach Taylor, American actor
- 1949 – Bernd Eichinger, German movie producer (d. 2011)
- 1951 – Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, American socialite (d. 1997)
- 1951 – James Patrick Kelly, American author
- 1953 – Andrew Wiles, British mathematician
- 1953 – Guy Verhofstadt, former Prime Minister of Belgium
- 1954 – Abdullah Atalar, Turkish academic
- 1955 – Kevin Brady, American politician
- 1955 - Michael Ray Richardson, American basketball player
- 1955 – Julie Czerneda, author
- 1955 – Michael Callen, American singer and songwriter (d. 1993)
- 1957 - Richard Sevigny, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1957 – Marina Fitch, author
- 1958 – Stuart Adamson, British musician (Big Country) (d. 2001)
- 1958 – Luisa Diogo, former Prime Minister of Mozambique
- 1959 - Pierre Lacroix, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1960 – Jeremy Clarkson, English journalist and television presenter
- 1961 – Doug Hopkins, musician
- 1966 – Lisa Stansfield, English singer
- 1966 – Mason Reese, American actor
- 1968 – Sergey Lukyanenko, Russian science fiction author
- 1969 - Cerys Matthews, Welsh singer
- 1970 – Whigfield, Danish singer
- 1971 – Oliver Riedel, German musician (Rammstein)
- 1972 – Jason Varitek, American baseball player
- 1973 - Jennifer Esposito, American actress
- 1974 - Tricia Helfer, Canadian model and actress
- 1974 - Zoe Lucker, British actress
- 1974 – Trot Nixon, American baseball player
- 1976 – Antonio Pacheco, Uruguayan footballer
- 1978 - Tom Thacker, Canadian singer and musician
- 1979 - Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Iranian-Canadian model and singer
- 1979 - Malcolm Christie, English footballer
- 1980 – Keiji Tamada, Japanese footballer
- 1982 – Ian Bell, English cricketer
- 1983 - Jennifer Heil, Canadian skier
- 1984 – Nikola Karabatic, French handball player
- 1987 – Joss Stone, English singer
- 1988 - Leland Irving, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1990 – Shohei Otsuka, Japanese footballer
- 1991 – Thiago Alcántara, Italian footballer
- 1991 - James Magnussen, Australian swimmer
- 1991 - Erina Mano, Japanese singer and actress
- 1994 – Dakota Blue Richards, English actress
- 1998 - Oliver Dillon, English actor
- 2000 - Morgan Lily, American actress
Deaths [change]
- 678 - Pope Donus
- 1034 – Romanus III, Byzantine Emperor (b. 968)
- 1165 – King Stephen IV of Hungary (b. 1133)
- 1240 – Llywelyn the Great, King of Gwynedd
- 1771 – George Canning, Sr., father of George Canning (b. 1736)
- 1856 – Jose Santamaria, Costa Rican national hero (b. 1831)
- 1875 - Andrew Jackson Hamilton, 12th Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
- 1884 – Charles Reade, English writer (b. 1814)
- 1890 – Joseph Merrick, British man who was often referred to as the Elephant Man (b. 1862)
- 1894 - Constantin Lipsius, German architect (b. 1832)
- 1921 – Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Empress of Germany and Queen of Prussia (b. 1858)
- 1926 - Luther Burbank, American botanist and horticulturist (b. 1849)
- 1950 – Bainbridge Colby, United States Secretary of State (b. 1869)
- 1958 - Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (b. 1875)
- 1967 - Donald Sangster, 2nd Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1911)
- 1970 – John O'Hara, American writer (b. 1905)
- 1977 – Jacques Prevert, French poet (b. 1900)
- 1983 - Dolores del Rio, Mexican actress (b. 1905)
- 1985 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian political leader (b. 1908)
- 1987 – Primo Levi, Italian writer and chemist (b. 1919)
- 1992 - Eve Merriam, American playwright, director and poet (b. 1916)
- 1997 – Wang Xiaobo, Chinese writer
- 2001 - Harry Secombe, Welsh actor and comedian (b. 1921)
- 2005 – Lucien Laurent, French footballer (b. 1907)
- 2006 – Proof, American rapper (b. 1973)
- 2006 - June Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters) (b. 1953)
- 2007 – Kurt Vonnegut, American writer (b. 1921)
- 2009 - Gerda Gilboe, Danish actress (b. 1914)
- 2012 – Ahmed Ben Bella, 1st President of Algeria (b. 1918)
Events [change]
- 672 – Adeodatus II is elected Pope.
- 1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint monarchs of Scotland, England and Ireland.
- 1713 - War of the Spanish Succession - Treaty of Utrecht.
- 1775 – Germany's last witchcraft execution takes place.
- 1814 – Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates as Emperor of France, and is exiled on the island of Elba.
- 1856 - Battle of Rivas in Costa Rica: Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up.
- 1868 – Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, ending the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan.
- 1912 – The RMS Titanic leaves Queenstown, Ireland, bound for New York. This was its last stop before its sinking.
- 1919 - The International Labour Organization is founded.
- 1921 - Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralized government the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
- 1945 – Buchenwald Concentration Camp is liberated.
- 1951 – General Douglas MacArthur is relieved of his duties by US President Harry S. Truman.
- 1951 – The Stone of Scone, on which Scottish monarchs were crowned, is found in Arbroath, after it had been taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It is later officially returned to Scotland in 1996.
- 1954 – April 11, 1954 is allegedly the most boring day of the 20th century.
- 1955 - The Air India Kashmir Princess aircraft is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
- 1957 - The United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
- 1961 – Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann is put on trial.
- 1965 - 56 tornadoes hit six Midwestern US States, killing 256 people.
- 1968 – German activist Rudi Dutschke is shot. This indirectly leads to his death of an epileptic fit in 1979.
- 1970 – Apollo 13 launches with astronauts James Lovell, John Swigert and Fred Haise on board.
- 1976 - The Apple I is created.
- 1979 – Tanzanian troops enter Kampala, as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin flees.
- 1981 – Brixton riot One of three riots in Brixton, London happened on this day
- 1985 – Albania's head of state Enver Hoxha dies, and is succeeded by Ramiz Alia.
- 1987 - The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israels then-foreign minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
- 1989 - Ron Hextall becomes the first goaltender in NHL history to score a goal in the play-offs.
- 2001 – In an association football match, Australia beats American Samoa 31-0, setting a record for an international match in the sport.
- 2002 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is briefly removed from office in a US-backed coup, but is soon reinstated.
- 2006 – Italian crime boss Bernardo Provenzano is arrested.
- 2006 - President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that his country has enriched uranium.
- 2006 - Ehud Olmert officially becomes Prime Minister of Israel, as Ariel Sharon is unable to continue in this role after a stroke three months earlier.
- 2007 – A terrorist bombing occurs in Algiers.
- 2011 – In Ivory Coast, the political crisis comes to an end after Laurent Gbagbo is arrested in Abidjan, with Alassane Ouattara becoming the next President.
- 2011 - The Minsk Metro is bombed.
- 2012 – Two earthquakes, including one of magnitude 8.2, strike off Sumatra, causing a tsunami alert.
